Thanks GL.
It does protect against GA damage though right? Maybe I'm not understanding Protection well but the description is:
"Reduces damage taken by targets. Applied after armor."

So why doesn't it protect against all damage taken by all targets? Maybe AMF backlash is not targeted damage--so that could be one explanation. Friendly fire fireball damage is also not targeted to hurt your own minions--i guess it's mis-targeted. You could take the opposite point of view and say that all damage is targeted, I suppose. If you look at the graphs, one wonders why Protection is one of the least trained and least popular EDs.

Is it because Protections sucks. Is it because Protection is poorly understood? I'm just making some observations. When you say "I'm going to protect you" it generally means that any harm is decreased. But here, it appears that harm is separated into categories and Protection just protects against some harm and not others. It's been a curiosity of mine for awhile, and that's why I'm questioning it.

So, Grant. does that mean that Protection should decrease friendly fire damage?

And that still doesn't answer why AMF backlash is considered such a different damage type that it is not affected by AC, or Protection. I mean AMF backlash and friendly fire are very similar type of damage. It doesn't seem fair that some type of damage is only reduced by a ToE. In my opinion, Protection should have an effect on all types of damage, possibly to varying degrees, but not necessarily.

It's my opinion that friendly fire harm is not much different from AMF backlash. Therefore, those an all other types of harm should be decreased by Protection. You can say AMF backlash is not harm but that would be stupid. You can say that AMF backlash is not damage but that would be ridiculous. Why does it escape Protection's sphere of effect?

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